Vincent Gentile, a city councilman from Brooklyn, will seek the seat left vacant after Representative Michael Grimm’s resignation. He will face Dan Donovan, the Republican district attorney on Staten Island, in a special election on May 5.

Santa had a few minutes to kill before a holiday party the other evening, so he pulled up his sleeves and showed off some of his tattoos: a dragon, a sailboat and, inked across the nape of his neck, the phrase ''Meat Is Murder.'' The man in red,...

December 8, 2011, Thursday

City Councilmen David I. Weprin of Queens and Vincent J. Gentile of Brooklyn asked the Legislature yesterday to give the State Public Service Commission the authority to regulate gasoline prices in the state. The commission has authority over...